Saturday, March 14, 2009

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  1. Oddly enough, I'm just now writing about a (part) Cherokee grandmother telling her granddaughter Cherokee stories.

    I have no Indian blood so far as I know but am lucky to live only a little more than an hour away from the Qualla Boundary, home of the Eastern Band of the Cherokee.

    And what is that beautiful gemstone?

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  2. It's ruby in fushite. Fushite is the matrix in which ruby grows. It's surprisingly inexpensive if you buy it at a rock and gem show.

    My father, and his entire family, is from the Eastern Band of Cherokee. My great-grandfather walked the Trail of Tears, carrying the body of his 7 month old baby sister for part of the way. They hated Oklahoma, so they made their way back to the North Carolina mountains, where they had to live as fugitives on land that once belonged to them. My grandfather told me that great-grandfather made a good living selling moonshine to white men, ha ha!

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  3. Oh, I forgot to ask...are you working on the Miss Birdie book? Hurry, hurry, hurry! :D

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  4. Doing the rewrite as commanded by Herself, my editor. There's a bit about the Trail of Tears in it and John Goingsnake and his little baby who ran away and hid with the Yunwi Tsundi.

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  5. Great! I can't wait until I can read it!

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